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This book provides an introduction to federalism and centre-state relations in India. Looking at the constitutional, political and economic dimensions of the relations between the central government and states, the book offers insights into some of the thorniest issues facing India today. These include the scope and limits of central authority, the rights of minorities, sources of economic dynamism, the ability to improve public services and tackle regionalinequalities.

This path-breaking volume reveals a little-known aspect of how Lashkar-e-Tayyaba (LeT) functions in Pakistan and beyond. It is only by understanding LeT's domestic functions as set out in LeT's propagandist literature, a canon of Islamic texts, that one can begin to appreciate why Pakistan so fiercely supports it, despite mounting international pressure to disband the group.

A collection of 14 short stories by Paramita Satpathy that straddlie many layers of human experience and make an honest effort to explore overpowering passions carefully concealed under a veneer of a false confidence.

This volume consists of a collection of essays that explores the songs of Rabindranath Tagore, also known as Rabindrasangeet as independent poetic verses. It is an intellectual reading of his songs that are collected in the Gitabitan, which is a collection of all of his 2232 songs.

The book offers a historical perspective on fiscal federalism, in particular the interplay and overlap of institutional mechanisms. In doing so, it examines persistent as well as immediate concerns, and offers a way forward.

Surrogacy is a concise look at the ways in which systems of surrogacy have evolved in India, the issues and practices surrounding reproduction, kinship, women's bodies, reproductive technologies, and transnational reproductive tourism.

Douglas Allen's central claim is Gandhi, when selectively appropriated and creatively reformulated and applied, is essential for formulating new positions that are more nonviolent and more sustainable. These provide resources and hope for dealing with our contemporary crises. Challenging us to consider nonviolent, moral, and truthful transformative alternatives today, the author presents Gandhi in the age of technology; after 9/11 and 26/11 terrorism; theBhagavad-Gita and Hind Swaraj; Vedanta; socialism; and marginality, caste, class, race, and oppressed others.

In the last three decades, India has witnessed the gradual implementation of policies of liberalisation, privatisation and globalisation that promised better economic opportunities for the people. This book probes whether neoliberal economic reforms have benefited the Muslims with adequate socio-economic development. It seeks to answer that if the Indian Muslims are empirically identified as a socio-economically deprived and a politically excluded community; why suchissues have not been prominently articulated in the contemporary political discourses.

A unique novel written collaboratively in the 1920s by nine young authors from Odisha, Annada Shankar Ray, Baishnab Charan Das, Harihar Mahapatra, Kalindi Charan Panigrahi, Muralidhar Mohanty, Prativa Devi, Sarala Devi, Sarat Chandra Mukherjee, and Suprava Devi. The novel is the first manifesto of feminism in Odia literature.

Using fresh empirical data and oral history evidence, this book explains the causes of ceasefire violations on the J&K border, and establishes a relationship between ceasefire violations and crisis escalation between India and Pakistan. In doing so, the book further nuances the existing arguments about the escalatory dynamics between the two South Asian nuclear rivals. Furthermore, the book explains ceasefire violations using the concept of 'autonomous militaryfactors'

The Algebra of Warfare-Welfare develops a distinct political anthropology-sociology of democracy in India and beyond. It advances an original argument to understand electoral democracy as an algebra of warfare-welfare beyond immediacy and cold statistics. It makes (non) human lives - lived, unlived or unlivable - central to our understanding of democracy. Examining the momentous 2014 elections by analyzing development, gurus, terrorism, charisma, media,nationalism, rumour, truth, corruption, religion, regionalism, polarization, space, vote-bank, castes, manifestos, it brings together scholars to open up space for new thinking.

This is a five-volume survey of research and developments in the discipline of psychology and its practice in India undertaken by the Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR). Offering comprehensive accounts of research related to psyche, yoga, cognition, affect, social processes, education, organizations, mental disorders, and health this survey is an indispensible resource for the students, researchers and professionals of psychology and allieddisciplines.

Laxmanshastri Joshi was a brahmin scholar and a passionate champion for religious and social reform. Unlike most brahmins, he went against the grain, helping Gandhi overcome the powerful upper caste Indians and helped bringing Dalits into the Indian mainstream. With courage and civility, he spoke out against Hindu orthodoxy, pointing to the heterodoxy and polemical debate in the immense sweep of Hindu religion. Like Tagore, he was one of India's renaissance men. Swimming Upstream traces Laxmanshastri's life of scholarship, courage, his steadfast humanity, and his role in the making of a free, secular, modern, and democratic India.

This work probes the consistent credibility that the Election Commission enjoys as a non-partisan constitutional body entrusted with the responsibility of conducting elections in India. The authors argue that the EC must be seen as performing a range of functions, not all of which are regulatory. The EC is actively engaged in framing and implementing rules to ascertain procedural certainty in order to ensure the democratic principle of uncertainty of electoraloutcome.

The book seeks to highlight the multicultural ethos of India and its regional variations, by studying different aspects of marriage in Rajasthan. The social structure, the caste positions, the emergence of Rajputs, etc., have been looked into. Customs and practices such as dowry, polygamy, child marriage, and concubinage are examined too. Sati and widow remarriage, two popular themes in this domain, have also been studied from a fresh perspective, the norms ofmarital and sexual morality has rarely been studied in such detail before.

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Fundamentals of Computers has been specifically designed as a textbook for the introductory course on computer fundamentals offered in BSc, BCom, Diploma, and Computer Applications programmes.

Sociologists and philosophers have long pointed out that the idea of the social has always been ambiguously defined. This book is an exploration of the nature of this 'social'; it argues that our definition of sociality is influenced largely by our everyday lives, the institutions we are part of, and the relationships we build-all of these experiences catalyse the way we see the social world and shape how we act in it.

This book will appeal to academic researchers, who are engaged in the study of Indian and South Asianhistory as well as Southeast Asian and British Empire history, colonial and postcolonial studies, borderland studies, studies of indigeneity, frontier studies, intellectual history, and scholars of religion, gender studies, histories of science, botany, enumerative statistics, anthropology, and ethnography. It will also be of interest to human rights practitioners. Beyond markets in South Asia and Southeast Asia, particularly India and Bangladesh, this book will appeal to markets in Britain,USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa.

This set of five volumes documents the life and work of Manmohan Singh, an academic, a policymaker, and a politician who has had a deep impact on India and its economy. The volumes offer his selected speeches, articles, and interviews, starting from the 1950s, when he was in the academia, through the 1980s and 1990s, when he was India's finance minister, to 2004-14, when he was the prime minister of India.

What does it mean for education to be a fundamental right, and how may children benefit from it? Whoever has a "right" must also be able to claim that right, and not be dependent on the state choosing to provide for the right out of its own benevolence. This book shows why this aspect is of core importance for the right to education, and how the constitutional promise might be made a reality.

This book is a significant contribution to this discourse on land. Land is a subject of great conflict and debate in India. Over the past decade, the debate has focused on land acquisition, which some have called India's biggest problem. Land and the issues related to its acquisition have heavily influenced electoral verdicts and political fortunes in various parts of India. A new law for acquisition was created by the left-of-center Congress-led UPA government in2013, which was immediately sought to be amended (unsuccessfully) in 2014 by the newly elected right-wing BJP-led NDA government. These differing visions on acquisition have often been simplified into opposing camps: people-friendly vs. business-friendly; o

SDR 2018 takes an overview of economic, social, regional and gender inequalities that persist in India. Despite a growth in the country's GDP, access to health, education, employment, credit or property still remains difficult for various sections of society. Poverty and debt is very high among SCs, STs, women and other vulnerable groups.

Reconsidering American Power offers trenchant studies by renowned scholars who reassess the role of the social sciences in the construction and upkeep of the Pax Americana. The thematic image for this enterprise is the 'fiery hunt' for Ahab's whale, which focuses attention on the strange brew of mixed motives for American ventures abroad. The reach of Pax Americana exceeds its grasp, but this verdict requires deeper insight than simply flushing out cultural premisesand conceptual limits. The volume's purpose is to understand the USA's 'fiery hunt,' and thereby to help to end it.

This book brings together contribution from 21 Indian and global scholars and journalists to write informatively and critically about Indian journalism today. The contributors in this volume focus on the changes in journalism practices within the context of India's long journalism history, socio-economic conditions of the Indian state, and minority politics.

This book examines the contemporary nature of caste disparities in India by using a framework that integrates discussions on caste from other social science disciplines with those from within economics. It brings together quantitative evidence on different dimensions of caste disparities based on two large national-level data sets, in order to analyse the degree of change in the caste system over the last two decades. Offering evidence based on economic analysis, itquestions commonly-held views and challenges traditional wisdom.

Religions in South Asia have tended to be studied in blocks, whether in the various monolithictraditions in which they are now regarded, thus Hindu, Muslim, Buddhist, Sikh, Jain, or indeed intemporal blocks: ancient, medieval, modern. This volume seeks to look at relationships both withinand between religions. It explores the diversity and the multiplicity within each tradition, but also thespecific forms of their co-existence with each other, whether in accord or in antagonism. Its secondmajor concern is to look for grounds shared in the process of modernizing. And finally, it also looks atthe changing social and political frames of reference shared by both religious and secularist strandsof thought. The 'religions' targeted include Hindu discourses, Dalits, Jains, Sikhs, Islamic traditionsincluding the various Sufi orders, and Indian Christians.